Images and Words
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Images and Words is a landmark 1992 progressive metal album by Dream Theater, widely credited with bringing the band mainstream recognition and defining their signature sound.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Images and Words canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8544353 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Images and Words Context triple: [Dream Theater, notableWork, Images and Words]
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A.
Words and Pictures
Words and Pictures is a 2013 romantic drama film about the rivalry and relationship between an art teacher and an English teacher at a prep school, directed by Fred Schepisi.
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B.
Image-Music-Text
Image-Music-Text is a seminal collection of essays by Roland Barthes that explores the theory of signs and the relationships between images, music, and written language in modern culture.
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C.
Images
Images is a set of impressionistic piano pieces by Claude Debussy that evoke vivid, atmospheric soundscapes through innovative harmony and tone color.
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D.
Visual Concepts
Visual Concepts is a video game development studio best known for creating the long-running NBA 2K basketball simulation series.
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E.
The Writing on the Image
The Writing on the Image is a poem by William Morris that forms part of his larger narrative cycle The Earthly Paradise.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Images and Words Target entity description: Images and Words is a landmark 1992 progressive metal album by Dream Theater, widely credited with bringing the band mainstream recognition and defining their signature sound.
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A.
Words and Pictures
Words and Pictures is a 2013 romantic drama film about the rivalry and relationship between an art teacher and an English teacher at a prep school, directed by Fred Schepisi.
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B.
Image-Music-Text
Image-Music-Text is a seminal collection of essays by Roland Barthes that explores the theory of signs and the relationships between images, music, and written language in modern culture.
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C.
Images
Images is a set of impressionistic piano pieces by Claude Debussy that evoke vivid, atmospheric soundscapes through innovative harmony and tone color.
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D.
Visual Concepts
Visual Concepts is a video game development studio best known for creating the long-running NBA 2K basketball simulation series.
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E.
The Writing on the Image
The Writing on the Image is a poem by William Morris that forms part of his larger narrative cycle The Earthly Paradise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
progressive metal album
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studio album ⓘ |
| artist | Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certification |
Gold by CRIA
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Gold by RIAA ⓘ |
| chartPerformance | Pull Me Under reached MTV rotation and US rock radio charts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | widely acclaimed by progressive metal critics ⓘ |
| featuresBassist | John Myung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresDrummer | Mike Portnoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGuitarist | John Petrucci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresKeyboardist | Kevin Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresVocalist | James LaBrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Awake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | When Dream and Day Unite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
heavy metal
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progressive metal ⓘ progressive rock ⓘ |
| hasCoverArt | Images and Words album cover featuring a girl and a burning heart ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Another Day
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Learning to Live NERFINISHED ⓘ Metropolis—Part I: The Miracle and the Sleeper NERFINISHED ⓘ Pull Me Under NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrounded ⓘ Take the Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Under a Glass Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Wait for Sleep NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSecondStudioAlbumOf | Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| labelCatalogNumber | Atco 7 91759-2 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| length | 57:05 ⓘ |
| notableSingle |
Another Day
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pull Me Under NERFINISHED ⓘ Take the Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfTracks | 8 ⓘ |
| performer | Dream Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | David Prater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedAt | BearTracks Studios, Suffern, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod |
1991-10
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1991-12 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Atco Records
NERFINISHED
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EastWest Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1992-07-07 ⓘ |
| significance |
brought Dream Theater mainstream recognition
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helped define Dream Theater's signature sound ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
complex song structures
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frequent time signature changes ⓘ melodic vocals with metal instrumentation ⓘ virtuosic instrumental performances ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Images and Words Description of subject: Images and Words is a landmark 1992 progressive metal album by Dream Theater, widely credited with bringing the band mainstream recognition and defining their signature sound.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.